The MS Wissenschaft will launch its tour in Berlin on May 7, 2026, as part of the Science Year 2026 – “Medicine of the Future.” Fraunhofer MEVIS is also on board, presenting, within a joint exhibit by Fraunhofer Health, how artificial intelligence is used in tumour follow up control.

Fraunhofer MEVIS once again participated in Girls’ Day on April 23 with an extensive program on the topic of Digital Medicine. The aim was to arouse the interest of around 20 participating schoolgirls from the 7th grade onwards in scientific content, to convey this in a practical way and to show them perspectives within the STEM subjects.

DMEA 2026, Europe’s leading event for digital health, will take place at Messe Berlin from April 21 to 23. Experts from the fields of healthcare, IT, and research will come together to present and discuss the latest developments, technologies, and solutions for digital transformation in healthcare. Our experts look forward to welcoming you at the joint booth of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Hall 2.2 | Booth D-109).

How can complex physical processes be made visible and tangible? It was this question that British glass artist Gregory Alliss explored last November during the art residency “STEAM Imaging VI.” The residency, hosted by Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in collaboration with the Institute for Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, took place at the research institute in Bremen—providing Alliss with the opportunity to integrate science and art in a truly unique way.

This year's European Congress of Radiology (ECR), which will take place in Vienna from March 4 to 8, has the inspiring motto “Rays of Knowledge.” The meeting will highlight progressive education, multidisciplinary collaboration, and technological advancement, illuminating the path toward patient-centred, knowledge-driven imaging practice. Fraunhofer MEVIS is actively involved in shaping the ECR 2026 with a variety of contributions.

With the gammaSTAR software platform and the SpinIt project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS are facilitating the transfer of innovative imaging technologies into routine clinical use.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS will showcase the latest developments in AI-supported digital medicine at the SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2026, taking place from February 15 to 19 in Vancouver, Canada. This year, Fraunhofer MEVIS will be represented at the renowned conference with two poster presentations and a co-chaired live demonstration workshop, in which two of the live demos will showcase work by Fraunhofer MEVIS.

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS will present the latest technologies aimed at optimizing clinical workflows and improving patient care at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2025), held from November 30 to December 4 in Chicago.

A new exploratory study by the “Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft e.V.” shows what structural conditions need to be established to bring science and society into closer collaboration throughout the research process. It highlights what is already working well in Germany and where there is potential for a research culture that is both socially impactful and democratically grounded.

Fraunhofer MEVIS welcomes Gregory Alliss to the STEAM Imaging VI residency programme: “Resonant Connections through Design and Data.” The glass artist and engineer will be a guest at Fraunhofer, where he will focus his creative work on glass, the world of MR scanners, data, and design.

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) in cooperation with the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (EIBIR) invites applications for the Pixel Pandemonium at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) 2026. ECR 2026 will be taking place in Vienna, Austria, from March 4 to 8, 2026.

To mark International Breast Health Awareness Month, which takes place every October (see www.breastcancer.org), female scientists from Fraunhofer MEVIS invited female students from Oberschule am Waller Ring and the BBSG vocational high school for health, along with their female friends & family members to the institute on Monday to discuss breast health.

On 4 November 2025, 5:00 pm, the House of Science in Bremen will open the exhibition ‘Research yesterday, today, tomorrow—Insights into science in the state of Bremen’. To mark the 20th anniversary of City of Science and House of Science, the institution's sponsors will be presenting current examples of their research.

Fraunhofer MEVIS successfully contributed to the 28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) held from September 23 to 27, 2025 in Daejeon, Republic of Korea.

This year, the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS turns 30 – and marked the occasion on September 3 and 4 with several events. At a festive ceremony in Bremen’s Town Hall, representatives from politics, science, and industry honored the institute’s role as pioneer of digital medicine and driving force for the healthcare of tomorrow. At an international symposium, renowned experts offered insights into the future of medicine. Afterwards, the institute opened its doors to the public: during an Open House, Fraunhofer MEVIS researchers showcased their current projects through numerous, partly interactive demos.

Fraunhofer MEVIS celebrates its anniversary — and shows how new technologies can improve healthcare. Founded in 1995 as an interdisciplinary research center in Bremen, the Fraun-hofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS has since become one of the world’s leading institutes in its field. The institute is celebrating its 30th anniversary with several events: On the evening of September 3 a festive ceremony will take place in Bremen’s historic town hall, where representatives from politics, business, and science will reflect on the institute’s success story and also explore its future outlook. On September 4 international experts will gather at the institute for a symposium on future developments in medicine, focusing on the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in cancer care. In the afternoon Fraunhofer MEVIS will then welcome the public and offer interactive insights into ongoing research during an Open House.

As part of its activities to promote young talent, Fraunhofer MEVIS is also offering a course at this year's Informatica Feminale. The event is aimed at female practitioners from all disciplines with an interest in medicine, computer science, and mathematics. The fully booked course, taking place from August 26 to September 4, gives participants hands-on insights into key areas of digital medicine through interactive learning units and live demonstrations, led by Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists.

As part of its activities to promote young talent, Fraunhofer MEVIS is also offering a course at this year's Informatica Feminale. The event is aimed at female practitioners from all disciplines with an interest in medicine, computer science, and mathematics. The fully booked course, taking place from August 26 to September 4, gives participants hands-on insights into key areas of digital medicine through interactive learning units and live demonstrations, led by Fraunhofer MEVIS scientists.

When the new school year 2025/26 begins on 14 August 2025, the Oberschule am Waller Ring secondary school in Bremen will offer a program that is unique in Germany: an upper secondary school specialization in digital medicine. It was developed in close cooperation between the school’s upper secondary school and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS. The aim is to get young people excited about the key technologies of modern medicine at an early age and to show them the role that mathematics, computer science, biology, and psychology play in this field.

On July 16, 2025, we had the pleasure of welcoming Prof. Holger Hanselka, President of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, to Fraunhofer MEVIS. He was accompanied by Dr. Patrick Hoyer, Research Coordinator at Fraunhofer. Following a warm welcome by Institute Director Prof. Horst Hahn, the visit continued with a varied tour through our institute.

Fraunhofer MEVIS hosted a three-day workshop as part of the EU-funded TACTIX project, welcoming more than 30 participants for an intensive program focused on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology. The event brought together students and researchers from Boğaziçi University (Türkiye) and Fraunhofer MEVIS (Germany), with the project also drawing on the combined expertise in teaching and research of all partners, including Amsterdam University Medical Centre (Netherlands).

Over the next few weeks, four senior researchers from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye, will visit Fraunhofer MEVIS. Together with the MR-team they will work on a wide range of topics from MR-monitored High-Intensity Focussed Ultrasound (HIFU) and Electroencephalogram (EEG) to MR-sequence programming using gammaSTAR, the in-house development framework for MRI pulse sequences.

A research consortium led by University Hospital Erlangen and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has, for the first time, systematically acquired and analyzed MRI scans of the uterus in both healthy and diseased states as part of the RACOON FADEN project. The image data were evaluated using CuraMate, a modular software platform developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS for the annotation, segmentation, and quantification of medical image features.

On Wednesday, June 18, 2025, the 17th meeting of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board took place in Bremen under the chairmanship of Prof. Hans Maier.

The 21st European Congress of Digital Pathology (ECDP) will take place from June 25–28, 2025, at the Palau de Congressos de Barcelona. The event brings together professionals from clinical, research, and industry sectors to explore new approaches, challenges, and breakthroughs in digital pathology.

Regular follow-up monitoring is crucial when it comes to treating cancer successfully. In the SPIRABENE project, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS developed a deep learning-based software program which makes it possible to identify disease- and treatment-related changes in tumors in CT images with even greater speed and accuracy, thus improving the chances of recovery and making day-to-day clinical practice easier.

From May 28 to 30, 2025, the radiology community will meet for the 106th German Radiology Congress, or “RÖKO” for short, in Wiesbaden, Germany. The motto of this year's congress is ”Shaping W.I.R. – Knowledge. Innovation. Radiology“ with the overarching focus topics ”New Work“ and ”Radiology in Clinic and Practice“. Fraunhofer MEVIS will once again be represented at this year's RÖKO with numerous contributions.

Fraunhofer MEVIS proudly congratulates Alessa Hering for winning the first prize of the prestigious Fraunhofer ICT Dissertation Award 2024. The award recognizes her exceptional dissertation titled “Deep-Learning-based Image Registration and Tumor Follow-Up Analysis,” lauded by the jury for its outstanding contributions to medical image processing.

Bremen, 29 April 2025 – The best teams of the Basic Track of the Bremen Big Data Challenge 2024 were honored at a festive event at the Cognitive Systems Lab (CSL) of the University of Bremen.